What is Church?
As we enter the year 2016, some will consider attending a gathering of the church as a resolution for the new year. Some may decide to attend a church gathering more regularly. In this post I am assuming that there are many valid forms of church gatherings. Jesus Christ, who is the head of…
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Star of the East, Oh Bethlehem Star
For as long as I can remember, I have wondered about the nature of the star studied by the Magi of the east; you know, the one they used to find their way to Jesus. There are many theories. Could the “star” be a comet, a planetary conjunction, a supernova, or some other celestial event…
Continue readingDelicious Things and Wonderful Places
Nora Ephron (May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American filmmaker, director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, playwright, journalist, author, and blogger.1 She passed away earlier this week. Many news feeds have been running quotes from her blog and Twitter feeds. This one surfaced in the Guardian newspaper: “You should eat delicious things while you…
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(Written by Marc Martel and Jason Germain; 2006 Centricity Music Publishing/Germain and Martel Music Publishing/ASCAP) From the album “Ending is Beginning.” Follow the star to a place unexpected Would you believe after all we’ve projected A child in a manger Lowly and small, the weakest of all Unlikeliness hero, wrapped in his mothers shawl Just…
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We often hear that “Christians divorce at roughly the same rate as people in the world.” Recent studies show that this is not the case. A Statistics Canada report found that while religious affiliation had little impact on marital dissolution (separation and/or divorce), religious service attendance had a pronounced effect. Among Canadians 25 and older…
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Good Things Come In Threes
Click on photo to enlarge. Last June I wrote about the experience of two of our daughters getting married within six months of each other. That was a lot of fun. Now, just ten months later our third daughter has married. We are blessed. We are blessed to have these amazing young women in our…
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Weddings
Click on the picture to enlarge the image. Having two daughters get married within six months of each other will either make you feel old or will cause you to think about love and your own marriage. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And…
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In the past Jesus’ first miracle at the wedding in Cana has puzzled me and I have blogged about it here before. Earlier this week I was re-reading sections of Michael Frost’s excellent book Exiles and was reminded that Frost asked some of the same questions about this event. He also goes on to make…
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